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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 34: Sept. 2026
Micro-Cheribun: 36 words
By Tracy Royce

Dementia with Lewy Bodies

 

Witty woman slows down. Boom. Loses mobility. Emotions? A bomb. Mind wild: mentions dead bodies. Mood low, doom looms. Dim tomb.

Mom. 

Mine. 
Died. 

Mom’s mind died, 
a little 
at a time. 

 

An anagram cheribun. All words throughout are composed only of letters present in title/Mom’s diagnosis, “Dementia with Lewy Bodies” (repeat letters permitted).

 

—Long-listed Finalist in MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #4

 

Bio: Tracy Royce

 
 
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